Blender.org: Blender Makes It To GPL

“Today, Sunday Oct 13, 2002, we’ve launched the Blender sources
as GNU GPL to the Internet. Blender has become Free Software
forever! From now on we’ll use this site, www.blender.org, as the
main platform to communicate with everyone, and to provide the
necessary services and tools to maintain Blender and make it a
better product.

“The past three days we’ve had a hectic and very exciting user
conference here in Amsterdam, with about 90 visitors from Europe
and the USA. The amount of information we’ve exchanged is
tremendous. My head is nearly exploding! Fortunately most
presentations have been recorded, and will be available as a
written whitepaper or report as well. The next weeks you’ll see
this being added to the website.

“Blender dot org is far from finished. Improvements will be
added during the next months as well, to grow into a full
functional project space. Many groups then can gather together to
cooperate on improving specific parts of Blender, or doing complete
new things with it. Each group then can have its own main news
page, forums, maillists, CVS etc…”

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